How Many More People Can Our Small Island Take? As Population Heads Towards 70 Million Has The Penny Dropped For Labour?
By Sir Andrew Green, Chairman, Migration Watch UK. The issues around immigration are steadily becoming clearer as successive government smoke screens are blown away by the cool wind of logic. New immigration figures being published by the Government today will confirm that very high levels of immigration are continuing at about 200,000 a year. In recent weeks, […]
MW31 : The Business Visitor Scheme under the Points Based System | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1 The Government have virtually abandoned immigration control for foreign workers coming to Britain for up to six months. Introduction 2 The rules for business visitors under the Points Based System (PBS) were announced in mid-November. They are so full of loopholes as to undermine the entire scheme. Basic Conditions 3 The new rules […]
Toughening the points based system
Summary 1 With unemployment climbing fast, it is no longer acceptable that jobs which have never been advertised in Britain should be offered to economic migrants. Nor should migrants be admitted without a job to go to. The total of these categories is at least 75,000 jobs a year and probably a good deal more. […]
Toughening The Points Based System
With unemployment climbing fast, it is no longer acceptable that jobs which have never been advertised in Britain should be offered to economic migrants. Nor should migrants be admitted without a job to go to. The total of these categories is at least 75,000 jobs a year and probably a good deal more. These arrangements […]
Consultation On Immigration Appeals
Migrationwatch Briefing Paper No 8.28 summarised some of the main features of the government’s recently published Draft (Partial) Immigration and Citizenship Bill and appended a copy of the submissions made by Migrationwatch to the Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons. The draft is described as partial because some important topics have been omitted, with the […]
The Recession: No Solution To Large Scale Immigration
New Researchpublished today concludes that the widely forecast recession will not tackle the long term challenge of large scale immigration. The report was prepared by Migrationwatch at the request of the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration. It plots annual growth in GDP since 1970 to identify previous years of recession and examines what happened […]
MW23 : Will a recession solve the immigration problem? | Migration Watch UK
Summary1 No. The record shows that the effect is only temporary. Introduction2 It has recently been suggested that the problem of large scale immigration will resolve itself if, as expected, a recession occurs. This note examines the facts. Recession3 There have been three recessions in the past 38 years – 1975/6, 1981/2 and 1993. These […]
The Recession: no Solution to Large Scale Immigration | Migration Watch UK
New research published today concludes that the widely forecast recession will not tackle the long term challenge of large scale immigration. The report was prepared by Migrationwatch at the request of the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration. It plots annual growth in GDP since 1970 to identify previous years of recession and examines what happened […]
Migrationwatch Chairman Gives Evidence To Migration Advisory Committee
The Migration Advisory Committee, an independent body set up by the government to advise on those occupations in Britain which face skills shortages, held a session on 26 September to which they invited the Chairman to give evidence. The Committee had been requested by the government to provide advice as to whether the present restrictions on […]
Migrationwatch Invited To Put Forward Policy Suggestions
Following the evidence which we gave to the Economic Committee of the House of Lords, Migrationwatch were invited by a Cross Party Group of Parliamentarians to put forward suggestions as to how immigration issues should be tackled in a way that took account and also tackles the need to preserve the competitiveness of the economy but […]